does it do berries for seedless jam?
27856
What Lydia said is pretty accurate - one of the discs has holes small enough that you can do seedless jam, but the odd extra-tiny seed or seed-fragment might get through. But since you can say the same for mashing berries through a sieve or even cheesecloth, it's about as seedless as you can get!
27857
It Seems like it should. I use it to remove the seeds and skins from tomatoes, when I make sauce. Make sure to use the scrren with the smallest sized mesh.
27858
It depends on the size of the seeds. Using the finest size sieve I don't think it will remove all berry seeds. You would have to put it through a hand held fine sieve after using the food mill.
27859
It works pretty well but the finest sieve still lets the odd seed through so the jam wouldn't be totally seedless.
27860
When I have tried to do berries it worked fine. Everything I have done has worked.
352913
I don't really know, because there is no recipes w/the Jam & Jelly Maker, but I would just play w/the pectin and try it out. If it works let us know. Oh, the other thing is that I just thought of, you could call the company to get their answer to the question! Sorry I couldn't be more help.
1411024
Perhaps the smallest disc will do that. If not, suggest after running your raspberries through it, then run them through a cheese cloth. Hope that helps.
1539970
It should work for blackberries. The juice is collected in the second chamber and the pulp of the fruit and the seeds should Still be up in the top chamber. You could always line the top chamber with cheesecloth if it looks like the seeds will get into the juice. I love my steam juicer. I've made two batches of sole juice and with the pulp made apple butter. Delicious!
2079208
I don't use raspberries because of the seeds....so I don't know about that but I use strawberries and it grinds it up well for me
798589
I don't know. I never tried it. My guess is that it might give some juice, but the majority of the fruit will be left with the seeds.
678832
Yes, although I have only used it for berries. I make a lot of freezer jam and highbush cranberry catsup and the strainer does an excellent job of removing the seeds and retaining everything else - makes for delicious jam and catsup. I cannot use my Foley food mill any longer, as my arthritis limits me, so this was purchased to take its place - but it does so much more - I'm delighted with it - and it's fun to use.
1941785
Not at all. Their recipe book includes recipes to make sorbet, which uses no bananas. I personally love strawberries and raspberries, and you can use them frozen to make sorbet, frozen pies, etc.
1722328
I do not know. My order for seeds was never filled. My order for bare root plants was delivered and are in the ground and are setting strawberries at this time.
1298301
Yes. You probably need to soak them for awhile to plump them up. I haven't tried it but read good comments about cooking the berries in sugar and cornstarch (a base of maybe water?) To thicken the filling up.
2031845
No, but it does help to make it creamier and more like ice cream. For example, if you just use berries you will get sorbet.
597061
It will NOT remove seeds as fine as blackberry seeds. Sesame seeds go right thru the smallest holes. You need either a sieve, extra fine strainer or food press with pestle depending on how much jam you plan on making.
221556
It will pick up the pea gravel and small rocks with the leaves. Don't know about the berries.
306869
Try them, they work better if you make the liquid and use it instead of the plain berries.
1870561
Sorry I don't use any seeds. Yet. But if it works on wheat berries and white beans, which are both very hard, it seems like it would work on a softer seed. If I try some I'll repost.
2226889
I used mixed seed & small nuts but never dried fruit. Not sure how it would work with dried fruit
1720981
It depends on what you mean by 'extracting seeds'. Using this with raspberries, you'll get two different substances: pure raspberry juice, and a mush made up of mostly-flavorless raspberry pulp and seeds. The juice won't contain any seeds, but it'll be pretty close to impossible to separate the seeds from the pulp.